Setting up FRITZ!Box Media Server

As a media server, the FRITZ!Box can transmit images, music, and videos as well as internet radio stations and podcasts to playback devices or software in the home network (media streaming). This way you can access a central media collection from all computers and many other devices in the FRITZ!Box home network such as televisions, smartphones, and wireless music systems.

Requirements / Restrictions

The playback device or software must support the UPnP AV (Universal Plug and Play Audio/Video) standard.

1 Setting up a media server for your media collection

Disabling the USB remote connection for USB storage devices in the FRITZ!Box

Important:The USB storage device must be formatted with the NTFS, FAT/FAT32 or ext2/ext3/ext file system in order to use it with the media server. Refer to the manufacturer to find out which file system was used to format the USB storage device.

Connect the USB storage device to a USB port on the FRITZ!Box.

Enabling the Media Server in the FRITZ!Box

If you want to restrict access to particular USB storage devices connected to the FRITZ!Box, in the "Media Sources" section, select the USB storage device with the media files you want to release for sharing for the Media Server.

Indexing media files

In the table "Storage on the FRITZ!Box", click on "not created" or "was created" for every storage listed that contains files.

The indexing procedure is complete when "was created" is displayed next to each storage device that you indexed.

The index file will now be updated automatically if you use a web browser to copy files to http://fritz.nas. If you use the Windows Explorer or another application to copy the files to the storage, then you must either use the FRITZ!Box user interface, FRITZ!Fon, or a playback device or software that supports UPnP (for example VLC media player) to update the file index.

2 Configuring media sources in the internet

The following step is only necessary if you use Telekom's MagentaCLOUD and want the FRITZ!Box Media Server to make the media files stored on it available:

Note:If your FRITZ!Box was supplied by your cable provider, you may not be able to set up the MagentaCLOUD.

From the drop-down list, either select a preconfigured radio station or select the entry "Other web radio station..." if the desired station is not listed.

Note:If you select a preconfigured station, it is then automatically configured. Click the "Edit" button after the entry if you would like to change the following settings later.

Enter a name for the radio station in the "Name" field.

Enter the address of the radio station in the "Web address" field.

Note:Links to many internet radio stations can be found at www.shoutcast.com, for example. You can copy the addresses of the stations and use the context menu to paste them into the corresponding field.

If several FRITZ!Fons are registered with the FRITZ!Box, select the telephones you want to make the radio station available on.

Click "OK" to save the settings.

Now you can listen to internet radio stations with your playback devices or software that support UPnP.

Note:You can also use a FRITZ!Fon to listen to internet radio stations. To do so, press the "Menu" key on the telephone and scroll to "Internet services" > "Web radio".

4 Setting up podcasts

The following step is only necessary if you want to use the FRITZ!Box Media Server to listen to podcasts: